Methadone Maintenance - Alcohol and Drug Rehabilitation Centers - Borger, TX.

Methadone maintenance is a type of treatment for individuals in Borger who are dependent on heroin or prescription pain killers. This form of treatment has been around for a very long time, and the overall concept is that people are no longer involved in the drug using behavior that was brought on by their addiction since the methadone that they are being administered satiates cravings and prevents withdrawal. Like heroin, methadone is a full opioid agonist and stimulates the same receptors in the brain as heroin and other powerful pain killers. This is what makes methadone so effective as a substitute for heroin and other prescription opioids.

Clients enrolled in methadone maintenance therapy must dose every day to avoid withdrawal symptoms from the methadone itself. This can be logistically and financially challenging, but some find it a better option than a heroin addiction. Nevertheless, people starting on methadone maintenance need to realize that methadone detox is known to be far more challenging than even heroin detox and withdrawal. Once taking a certain dosage of methadone, there are many detoxification facilities that won't even take methadone maintenance clients since detoxification can be so difficult and rates of relapse are considerably high.

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